Academic Skill Builder - Free online resource, which offers educational video games that can be played by several students at once, has released 40 Web-based learning games for K–8 students. They cover basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
Writing
StoryBird: Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. You can write collaboratively.
Knowing Poe: Through the activities on this site, you can introduce learners (or, be introduced, yourself) to the literature, life, and times of one of America's foremost writers. Here, you will:
explore his worlds — both fictional and real — from a number of perspectives
examine the complex choices writers such as Poe make as they create their works
investigate the "hard facts" about life and death in Baltimore and the United States during Poe's lifetime
KidBlog Kidblog meets the need for a safe and simple blogging platform suitable for elementary and middle school students. Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all publishing activity within the classroom blogging community.
50 ways to tell a story: a website that has links to multiple resources for writing/telling a story
Piclits is a website where students can type or choose words to create poems or pieces of writing over an image.
Writing is Fun is a website that provides writing organizers. Sometimes, the most difficult part about writing is learning how to write, what to write, and when to write it. These organizers provide examples of each part of the organizers and then allow you to print out blank copies. So you can easily teach the organizer and then provide a blank copy to your students.
Random Logline Generator will create a random sentence or topic and then students can use that to start their free writing.
Creative Writing Prompts which provides over 300 possible prompts to get students creative juices flowing.
Folding Story is a website that provides that opportunity to use group writing where students can start a story and then other students work on it and then finish it. . As a teacher you can create a group and allow students to join that group and then start a story. Allow for students to be creative and require a daily writing by certain students in order to provide a grade.
Vocab Grabber is a website that allows users to copy and paste some text and then get data about the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context.
Write for Ten is a website dedicated to providing students an area to Write for Ten Minutes. The idea is simple....just write...about anything...for ten minutes. You can create an account and like a journal it will log what you wrote each day, and students feel like it, they can share it with visitors to the website.
Read Write Think: Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals—from organizing their thoughts to learning about language—all while having fun.
Poetry Forms: Choose your poetry form from the list of links on the left. Then just add words to make the poem your own.
The Bookshelf Muse, students will find several thesauruses: emotion, setting, color/shape/texture, weather, and symbolism.
Kerpoof tell stories, make pics. Tell a digital story like a graphic novel
YouPublish Turn writing into a flippable online book!
Make Beliefs Comix: Create your own comics online using characters and backgrounds. Free to use. Can be done in multiple languages.
Reading
Awesome Stories: Enjoy stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them.
Google Lit Trips: Plot out the journey characters take on their journey in their reading materials. Books can come to life on a map by adding pictures, text, voice, and even video.
Mythic Journeys: The Big Myth is a new experimental learning module designed for use in European primary school classrooms. It is a sociology textbook for the comparative study of world creation mythology. The myths are told using Flash animation and are accompanied by an overview of the culture, the pantheon of the gods and a series of exercises based on that culture. The Big Myth combines the internet and Flash animation as a presentational medium with a highly progressive group learning method known as complex instruction. Teachers are advised to start in the teacher's section for more complete instructions. The Big Myth consists of the Mythology section, Links and Bibliography for further research, a Write Your Own Creation Myth section for students, the Teacher's Guide and a Discussion Forum where an off-line debate is held over the material.
The Secret Annex: lets students travel back in time to Anne Frank’s hiding place. Students can explore Anne’s house in a super cool 3D interactive environment. The Secret Annex gives students an authentic feel for the place where Anne wrote her diary while listening to stories of everyone who lived in the hiding place. In addition to the 3D hiding place, students can review historical archive material about the war and view unique TV broadcasts where memories are shared.
Literature Map makes it simple to discover new authors. Student’s can type in the name of a favorite author and instantly get a cloud of related authors. The closer two writers are together on the map, the more likely someone will like both of them. Any of the authors in the cloud can be selected to see the authors related to them.
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